This post is meant to receive feedback about the Bluefin Logo specifically
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bluefin.png
Source and other images
Poll
- I like the Bluefin Logo
- I do not like the Bluefin Logo
- I don’t care much about the Bluefin Logo
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it would help if you could add a link to the logo 
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Thanks, I added them!
Hardly ever see the logo so not bothered either way. Love the backdrops though.
Yep, do you actually see to logo that much, it shows during boot but its pretty small.
And on neofetch/fastfetch but that is pretty much it i guess.
I am not into dinosaurs much, but I don’t see them often anyway
It just looks pretty unprofessional when using your PC with other people
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I’m kinda meh about the logo but I love the backdrops. At the end of the day it isn’t my highest priority, but wouldn’t be upset if there were some updates.
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If there’s some worry about others seeing it as “unprofessional”, everyone is entitled to their opinions. Aside from the wallpaper the logos are visible quite briefly (unless authentication takes a while). If you’re worried about standing out there’s always Windows (kidding of course). But I have real suggestions.
In places you see a Bluefin logo you can remove it or toss a fedora one back in. There isn’t a simple command to revert to vanilla Silverblue theming, but it’s been brought up. Since you mentioned booting specifically, you can always press escape to see “behind” the logo / loading aninmation.
Similarly, you can change the plymouth theme (by default it shows a small dino during boot just before the login screen, usually with a giant OEM logo above it if your system has one). There’s some conflicting info out there saying the theme can’t be changed on silverblue, but it just requires very slightly different steps. Hmm this would make a good doc page (eventually a ujust command) if it’s not already on a wiki somewhere. For now while I run to my Bluefin system:
Image Sources
- /usr/share/pixmaps/ has the stock Fedora bootloader logos, ones for the wallpaper logo extension on Gnome, etc. I think this on Bluefin has the project bluefin logo replacing the fedora one in some places.
- /usr/share/ublue-os/bluefin-logos has a lot of dino icons
- /usr/share/backgrounds/ has a bluefin subdirectory with the various dino scenes. The directory has the default light/dark theme fedora wallpaper (firefly season in… Dracut, Massachusetts just started so that’s quite seasonal).
- /usr/share/wallpapers/ on my Plasma system has so many subfolders with fun wallpapers. Guess that’s why adding Plasma was almost 600 additional packages on the image
- [content to come] – the location of the Bluefin / Aurora wallpapers, and the Universal Blue one.
Dinosaur Hunting
- Plymouth logo (right after your UEFI, and decryption prompt if you have one) small dino at bottom (vanilla has a fedora logo, and this image is on disk).
- Login screen. On Bluefin GDM shows a small “project bluefin” logo with dino similar to scale/position of the Plymouth logo.
- Dynamic and Seasonal Wallpaper Dinos. The way these are installed effectly supplants the vanilla Fedora dynamic wallpaper, but of course a wallpaper change is easy. If you want an “Enterprise Edition” I highly recommend the Universal Blue wallpaper [location to come].
- Several vanilla Fedora user profile photos in /usr/share/pixmaps/faces are overridden (my icon on Discourse is “surfer.jpg”).
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On a personal note I have poorly managed ADHD so not only do I have too many windows, on too many workspaces, each with too many tabs, but I’m also using auto-tiling on most of my fleet. Only briefly see the state of the wallpaper dino world when I reboot to the latest build after lunch, until I open a terminal .
My aged ThinkPad dev workstation shows the Plymouth dino for 0.5-2 seconds, and the GDM login window one only as long as it takes me to get a finger on a fingerprint reader.
What I’m saying is I want more dinos. 
Bluefin-DP (Dino Plus)
There are some things you can do today to get more Dinosaurs.
- use a Bluefin user profile image? There’s several cute ones. I set up one during F40 initial Gnome setup but it got erased and I had to set it again later for some reason.
- launch your terminal at startup and have it auto-run fastfetch
- enable the Gnome logo wallpaper extension and set it to the light or dark project bluefin logo as appropriate for your wallpaper
- if your app launcher icon is large enough, use a logo from /usr/share/ublue-os/bluefin-logos instead of the “U” or the fedora “f”
Future Possibilities:
- a deeper Plymouth theme if anyone sees this long enough for it to be that relevant. On my ThinkPad the LENOVO red brick is giant the little dino is overshadowed.
- for Aurora, the logo/spinner after login
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Hmm I think there was a few commands built in that would reset atleast the layout to “stock” fedora. Not sure if it removes the theming (propably not).
That way you keep the goodies but get a stock fedora layout
To me, it’s not about removing or hiding the existing logo but that the distro i use has a neat logo out of the box to be proud of.
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tbh windows is awesome. their design team is fantastic
off topic, i tried to change the watermark.jpg in the user/theme/spinner folder but unable to remove or change as its a read only location. i tried to make a rpm package to over write the water mark, and it does, but it dosnt change the Dino back to default fedora logo. what about a logo of fedora with a small logo or sysmbol of bluefin instead?
sorry, the dino makes the system feel childish just like PikaOS thats themed or based around pokomon crap (shame as its a lightning fast distro)
Well, I prefer Gnome (GTK4/libwaita), and Google (Material UI) designs over Microsoft (Fluent) ones
Windows has also some known design consistency pitfalls, but iinm, they’re working on that
A little unholy sudo rm -f would perhaps do the trick, once
Yeah, I kinda agree
When I’m alone, it’s totally fine, I personally don’t care that much
It becomes kinda embarrassing when I’m sharing my screen either over the internet or IRL
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nope, even with force dosnt work
I tried
sudo mount -o remount,rw /
then
sudo cp -f /home/tolga/Pictures/watermark.png /usr/share/plymouth/themes/spinner/watermark.png
then
sudo update-initramfs -u
and even
ls -l /usr/share/plymouth/themes/spinner/watermark.png
nothing worked, obviously im mssing something
Well you cant touch those parts in general so it wont work.
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Why not? Ifnits possible on the dev’s end then why cant it be accessible at the users end?
That is kind of the point with immutable distros. Those parts are “off limits”
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The Plymouth dino is the only one that will require a custom image or local initramfs.
All the other dinos can be removed.
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